Background Rendering

I’ve been trying to render an animation with an image loaded in the “Output” tab of the render properties. Whenever I try to render either an image or animation I briefly get that background and my animated model in the rendering preview window and then Blender quits. I’ve played around with the different settings in the rendering properties but always get the same result. Anyone know anything about this problem and what I can do to fix it?

check your console window and see http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Render/Performances